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A Sliver of Darkness

A Sliver of Darkness
  • Author(s): C J Tudor
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary/near future

Join a group of survivors who wash up on a deserted island only to make a horrifying discovery. Meet a cold-hearted killer who befriends a strange young girl at a motorway service station. Travel along eerie country lanes in...

A Slow Fire Burning

A Slow Fire Burning
  • Author(s): Paula Hawkins
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘What is wrong with you?’ Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She’s seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a...

A Small Weeping

A Small Weeping
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The body of a prostitute is found at Glasgow ‘s Queen Street Station, her hands, pointing towards her feet, placed as if in prayer, a small flower pressed between the palms. Psychologist Solomon Brightman is called to assist DCI...

A Storm hits Valparaiso

A Storm hits Valparaiso
  • Author(s): David Gaughran
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Lima, Mendoza
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

In 1810, José de San Martín deserts the Spanish Army and returns home to Buenos Aires to lead a bloody revolt against his former masters. Struggling with an increasing dependence on opiates, San Martín forms a secret army of...

A Suitable Lie

A Suitable Lie
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Ayr
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Some secrets should never be kept… Andy Boyd thinks he is the luckiest man alive. Widowed with a young child, after his wife dies in childbirth, he is certain that he will never again experience true love. Then he...

A Taste For Malice

A Taste For Malice
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

DI Ray McBain is back at work and on filing duty. Desperate for something to do, a pair of old files intrigue him. In the first a woman pushes her way into a vulnerable family. The children adore her....

A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres
  • Author(s): Jane Smiley
  • Location(s): Iowa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Larry Cook’s farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters, is disarmingly uncharacteristic....

A Thread Unbroken

A Thread Unbroken
  • Author(s): Kay Bratt
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Chai and Josi share a bond that transcends ordinary friendship. While Chai has always been Josi’s protector-ever since they were toddlers, growing up together in a small Chinese village-she finds herself helpless when they are both abducted from their...

A Time of Mourning

A Time of Mourning
  • Author(s): Christobel Kent
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966

November in Florence. If you have read`A Florentine Revenge’ find out what happened to the policeman – Sandro Cellini in this novel. He has left the police and is working as a P.I. His first client Is Lucia –...

A Very Big House in the Country

A Very Big House in the Country
  • Author(s): Claire Sandy
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For one long hot summer in Devon, three families are sharing one very big house in the country. The Herreras: made up of two tired parents, three grumbling children and one promiscuous dog; the Littles: he’s loaded (despite two...

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